life-and-death

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“People can have life and death reactions to medications,” said Dr. Alan Smith, a family physician who chairs the Utah medical board but said he wasn’t speaking for the group.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Travolta’s perspective on life and death seems collective, almost optimistic, as if dying is merely a long-haul journey between this existence and the next, with everyone he’s loved and lost waiting there with open arms.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Leo has denounced the race for AI in the military field, saying that "delegating decisions concerning the life and death of human beings to machines" is a "destructive spiral".

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

“The Tristan Project” — created by video artist Bill Viola, director Peter Sellars and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney in 2004 — magnifies the rituals of life and death.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"Yet it would be an ill day for us if Craster died. Your unde could tell you of die times Craster's Keep made die difference between life and death for our rangers."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin